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A Lesson from the South for Fiscal Policy in the US and Other Advanced Countries

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2011

deficits, but by 2011 had come to feel constrained by inherited debt to withdraw fiscal stimulus. Chile has achieved … so. Chile has a rule that targets a structural budget balance. But rules are not credible by themselves. In Europe and … the U.S., official forecasts are overly optimistic in booms; so revenue is spent rather than saved. Chile avoids such …

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Reforming the Tax System in Japan to Promote Fiscal Sustainability and Economic Growth

Jones, Randall Sidney - 2008

Tax reform is an urgent priority, as Japan needs as much as 5% to 6% of GDP of additional government revenue just to stabilise public debt, which has risen to 180% of GDP. In addition to raising revenue, tax reform should promote economic growth, address the deterioration in income distribution...

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The Taxation of Internationally Portable Pensions : Fiscal Issues and Policy Options

Genser, Bernd - 2016

Pension policy reforms across the world in recent decades are a reaction to the changing demographic and socioeconomic environment. While pension scheme redesign has received much attention, the tax treatment of contributions, returns, and benefits of retirement savings remains mostly unattended...

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Fiscal policy, income redistribution and poverty reduction in Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay

Lustig, Nora - In: Contemporary issues in development economics, (pp. 11-18). 2016

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The effect of the Covid pension withdrawals and the Universal Guaranteed Pension on the income of the future retirees and its fiscal costs

Madeira, Carlos - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 5 (2024) 3, pp. 1-13

Chile implemented large pension withdrawals during the pandemic relative to other countries. Afterwards, Chile …

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On the size of fiscal multipliers: A counterfactual analysis

Kuckuck, Jan; Westermann, Frank - 2013

The Structural Vector Auto-regression (SVAR) approach to estimating fiscal multipliers, following the seminal paper by Blanchard and Perotti (2002), has been widely applied in the literature. In our pa-per we discuss the interpretation of these estimates and suggest that they are more useful for...

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Haushaltskonsolidierung: Staatsausgaben durchforsten, Steuern erhöhen, Wachstum stärken

Bach, Stefan - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 79 (2010) 1, pp. 10-26

Die zentrale finanzpolitische Aufgabe der kommenden Jahre wird die Konsolidierung der öffentlichen Haushalte sein. Auch nach Bewältigung der Rezession werden weiterhin "strukturelle" Defizite in einer Größenordnung von drei bis vier Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts bestehen bleiben....

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Triste Aussichten nach der Wahl: Haushaltskonsolidierung erfordert Ausgabenkürzungen und Steuererhöhungen

Bach, Stefan; Steiner, Viktor - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 37, pp. 624-633

Nach der Bundestagswahl schlägt die Stunde der finanzpolitischen Wahrheit. Wer auch immer die nächste Bundesregierung stellt: Der Kassensturz nach der Wahl wird zeigen, dass kaum noch finanzpolitischer Handlungsspielraum besteht. Die öffentlichen Haushalte haben sich im Zuge der Rezession...

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The Dynamic Causal Relationship between Government Revenue and Government Expenditure Nexus in Ghana

Takumah, Wisdom - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The relationship between government revenue and government expenditure has been an important topic in public economics, given its relevance for policy especially with respect to the budget deficit. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between government revenue and...

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Fiscal Policy and Equity in Advanced Economies: Lesssons for Asia

ESTRADA, Gemma; ANGRESANO, James; LIND, Jo Thori; … - Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) - 2015

Advanced economies have a longer history of leveraging fiscal policy to address inequality relative to developing Asia. We examine the country experiences of the Nordic countries, France, Japan, and the US, to draw lessons for developing Asia in its relatively new quest to use fiscal policy to...

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